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VICE Sports World News Roundup: October 30

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Kansas City's players can't believe it either. Photo by Troy Wayrynen-USA Today Sports

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It's the 30th of October, 2015, and Sepp Blatter is still, technically, president of FIFA.

One FIFA presidential candidate, Sheikh Salman, has denied torturing a bunch of athletes in 2011, after the athletes participated in pro-democracy protests in Bahrain.

FIFA's main sponsors—with the conspicuous absence of Adidas—are calling for deeper, independent reform. "We do not believe FIFA have done what we asked them to do," said Coke's Peter Franklin.

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The Rugby World Cup will wrap tomorrow, when Australia takes on New Zealand. Don't miss this final, because it should be epic. These teams hate each other. Argentina and South Africa play later today for third place.

Portland beat Kansas City last night in the MLS playoffs after the teams went to a shootout. The shootout featured the most incredible penalty miss I've ever seen.

Former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro will sue Chelsea over her dismissal from the club. Carneiro, remember, was harshly banned from participating in team activities by coach Jose Mourinho after he alleged she was ignorant of the game and blamed her for his team's failure to win a match at the start of the season. Carneiro ran onto the field to help an injured player after being waved on by the ref and did not do anything wrong or show ignorance of the game rules in anyway.

Speaking of Mourinho, if he loses this weekend, I can't see him staying on as Chelsea coach. Chelsea host Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool in Saturday's early Premier League fixture.

ESPN's Alejandro Moreno asks a question I've been wondering about myself: Is Jose Mourinho trying to get sacked? If you think about soccer management from a cynical, money-making perspective, the best thing you could do after finding success (he won the season last year) is to get yourself fired—and paid out.

Photo of the Day

American Simone Biles won her third gymnastics World Championship. Congrats, Simone!

Photo by Robert Perry/EPA